Bill Rodgers Quotes

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

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• I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feel
  • Pressure
  • Emotions

• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Earth
  • Me

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Leader
  • Evidence
  • Conspiracy

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Learning
  • Key
  • Digital

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Hands
  • Mountain
  • Kitchen

• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Silly
  • Get

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Competing

• Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Work
  • Space
  • Dress

• If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Why
  • Picture
  • Learn

• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Find
  • Jazz
  • Cartooning

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Giving
  • Team
  • Best

• Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Refuse

• It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Conduct

• No more will, no more soul, no more life!

  

  George Ohsawa
  • Life
  • Soul
  • More

• Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Life
  • Live
  • Free